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...continue to view with suspicion. Some Vatican officials were worried that the Pope would be jeopardizing his prestige and that of the church by encouraging the hope that Poland's military government could be persuaded to loosen its grip. If John Paul's visit produced no concrete results, they argued, it could leave Poles in a deeper state of gloom than when he arrived. Ever present was the danger that the trip would release so much frustration and rage that neither the state nor the church would be able to contain it. Still, John Paul has gambled...
Played again by Vera Miles, Lila has be come positively shrewish on the subject of society's permissiveness regarding the criminally insane. She scuttles busily about making things go bump in the night, hoping to loosen Norman's new and tentative grip on his sanity and send him back to the asylum...
...These matches we've been playing give us a chance to loosen up a bit," Crimson third seed Dave Beckman explained. "They help with concentration and confidence. Hopefully they'll also make us more prepared for teams like Princeton and Yale." The Elis and Tigers have provided Harvard's toughest competition in the East for the last ten years. Harvard will meet both squads in several weeks...
...year, and Argentinian-trained insurgents supplied with U.S. arms were responsible for the destruction of port installations at Puerto Cabeza in Nicaragua in 1983. Funding for training Argentinian soldiers is included in the current Reagan budget, some economic limitations have been lifted, and the President would clearly like to loosen arms restrictions Argentina, however, has been making friendly overtures to Cuba and has refused to participate in hemispheric naval exercises as a protest against past and present United States support for Great Britain...
Mendelsohn will participate in the three day long World Conference on Soviet Jewry, which will work to improve the status of Soviet Jews and loosen tight emigration laws. The conference begins on March 15, the sixth anniversary of the arrest of Soviet dissident Anatole Scharansky...